Refrigerator



J. E. SAPP REFRIGERATOR Nov. 5, 1929.

Filed Aug. 8. 1928 3 Sheets-Sheet J. E. SAPP REFRIGERATOR No?. 5, i929.

3 sheets-sheet Filed Aug. 8. 1928 Fatented Nov. 5, 1929 v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- JAMES E. SAPI', 0I' BINIBRIDGE, GEORGIA, ASSIGNOB T0 RICH MANUFACTURING COI- PANY, F lBALIIBTBLRILD(BEE, GEORGIA REFRIGERATOR Application filed August 8, 1928. Serial No. 298,345.

This invention relates to refrigerators, and has more particular reference to an improved refrigerator adapt-ed to be easily and quickly converted into a dry cold storage refrigerator, a bottle dispensing refrigerator, or a combination dry cold storage refrigerator and bottle dispensing refrigerator.

An important object/ of the present invention is to provide a refrigerator embodying removable paits which -may be vreadily replaced by new ones should they become Worn or damaged from any cause.`

Still another object is to provide a refrigerator embodying removable bottle dispensing and dry cold storage units that may be associated in different relations to provide an ice compartment of the desired size and location as dictated byspecial requirements, and

thereof 0n line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a View of the refrigeratorshown in Figure 1,' partly inhorizontal section and partly in top plan. *y

Figure 4 is a vertical transverse on line 4 4 of Figure 2. K

Figure 5 is a perspective view of one of the bottle dispensing units,

Figure 6 is an enlarged view, partly in side elevation and partly broken away and in section, of a modified form of bottle dispensing unit. v

Figure 7 is a top plan view of the device shown in Figure 6; and

Figure Sis a vertical section on line 8-8 of Figure 6.

The embodiment of the invention shown in Figures l to 5 inclusive of the accomsection panying drawings consists of a suitable frame 5 having corner supporting legs 6 and -in which is mounted a rectangular box 7 which is open at the top and has sides, ends and a bottom of double wall construction with insulation 8 between the walls thereof as clearly illustrated in Figures 2 to 4 inclusive.

l The walls of the box 7 are preferably of wood and provided with av sheet metal covering 9, While a. sheet metal, tub 10fis fitted in 60 the box 7 to extend from 'end to end thereof, said tub lO'having a round or cylindrical bottom portion resting centrally upon the bottom of .the box 7 and spaced from the lowel corners of the latter to provide air spaces as 65 clearly shown in Figure 4. It is particularly noted that the tub 10 is removably fitted in the box so that it may be replaced by a new one when Worn or damaged, the tub being retained in place by suitable means such as av sheet metal molding 11 tted over the upper edges of the ends and sides of the box 7 and Y the upper marginal portions of 'they sheet metal covering 9 and the tub 10. The molding 11 is removably secured in place by means 75 of screws 12 or the like driven into the Walls ofthe box 7 as shown. v

A plurality of article receiving compartments or units are removably fitted in the tub l0, and two of these are illustrated as embodying bottle holding and dispensing units generally denoted by the reference character 13, while the remaining compartment 14 consists of an open top i'mperforate receptacle adapted for receiving goods which may be deg5 sired to be kept cool but which cannot be submerged in the cooling fluid placed in the tub 10. It will be notedv that the combined\widths of the compartments is less than the total.

length of the tub 10, thereby leaving an intervening space as at 15 constituting an ice chamber. Obviously, the ice chamber may be provided at any point in the tub by properly positioning the compartments or removable units, While elimination of any one ormore of the compartments or units will result in a corresponding increase in size of the ice chamber. On the other hand, the receptacle '14 may be replaced by a bottle holding and dispensing unit 13 to make the refrig- 100 erator wholly a bottle dispensing refriger ator, or a compartment 14 of any desired size may be used in the absence of bottle holding and dispensing units to thereby make the vrefrigerator strictly a cold storage dry refrigerator. s j

' Each bottle holding and dispensing unit 13 consists of an open top receptacle shaped to A snugly t within a portion of the tub 10 and provided with spaced U-shaped partitions 16 disposed in nested relation to form a plurality of channels of substantially semi-cylindrical form so as to accommodate the bottles 17 in horizontal side by side relation as illustrated clearly in Figures 2to 4 inclusive.

one side wall of each unit 13 or compartment 14 has an upward extension26 adapted to t between the adjacent edges of the lining of adjacent cover sections so as to prevent passage of warm air into any compartment or unit whenv the cover section or lid of an adjacent compartment or unit is opened. f A mounted upon the back of the box 7 to receive bottles as at 17". The latter lbottles will thus be positioned and displayed inan -orderly manner as well as located for convement access when desired to be placed into.

the channels of the bottle holding and dissuitable display rack 27 is detachablyl y 2U andthe units 13 may be of any desired size to rate to provide vfor dry cooling if referred. a5 8 V.4,5 ice chamber 15. As shown,

55 ment 14. It is partib'ularly noted-that the cross-sectional shape to the opposite sides of The bottle dispensing vunits 13 are suitably pensing units 13, it being understood that a' perforated as at 18 to permit the cooling iiuid bottle is inserted at one end of each chanto-freely pass into and fill the bottle channels nel Whenever it is desired to dispense a bot# to the required level. Obviously, the tub 10 tle from that channel at the other end. c

provide for more than two channels in each parent that the units or compatrments 13 bottle dispensing unit, but-the units are shown and 14 may be used in such number and Ire-v as each embodying two such channels for purlation as to 'provide a refrigerator suitable poses of illustration. c Moreover, the space befor various requirements. For example, the

25 tween the legs of the innermost partition 16 number of units 13 may be varied to obtain 0f each unit 13 is utilized for receiving a row the desired capacity in connection with Pthe of bottles as at 17a in an upright side by side size of the box 7 and the number of chanrelation. The space or compartment in which nels provided in each unit 13. Moreover, the bottles are placed at 17a may be imperfothe number of units 13 may be varied toy ofthe bottled change the size of the ice chamber 15. These goods at this point, or the units 13 may be are simply a few of the many combinations perforated to also Vpermit the cooling fluid to which vmay be effected by varying the size, enter the compartment for the bottlesat 17 locationl and number of the units 13 and compartments 14 respectively employed. b viously, the bottles at 17 are adapted to Other varia-tions will be apparent or suggestbe passed through the channels of the units 'themselves to those skilled in the art, while 13., each bottle being inserted in the channel the' ready removal of parts willbe at lonce at one end and being forced through the chanapparent aswell as the advantage of ready nel and out the other end by the insertion of renewal 'of parts to be derived therefrom. succeeding bottles. Minor changesmay he made without de- The top of the box 7 yis closed hymeans of a.- parting from the spirit and scope of the inremovable lcover consistingof a plurality of vention as claimed.` i l sections, each of which forms a lid' for a sep- Bottlepdispensing units of the form shown i arate unit or compartment 13 or 14 or for the in Figures 6 to 8 inclusive may be substi- V the cover contuted for the units lof Figures 1 to 5 insistsof a section 19 forming a lid for the ice clusivewhenever it is desired to restrict use chamber 15 and having sections 20 hinged to of the refrigerator for cooling and dispensopposite sides thereof as at 2l'to respectively ing the goods of any particular merchant l bform lids for the bottle holding and dispens using bottles of a distinctive or special lon- 5u ing units 13 disposed at opposite sides ofthe gitudinal contour of irregular form. In this -ice chamber.. A further relatively narrow instance, the openftop unit13a has side walls cover section 22 has a wider lid-forming secconnected by spaced pairs of nested U-shaped tion 23 hinged to one side thereof as at'24'to walls or partitions 16a. corrugated longitui forma closure for the dry storage compartdinally' to form 'channels conforming in units or compartments 13 'and 14 arie of simi` the bottles 17 to be passed therethrough in lar width, thereby enabling the cover sec-` horizontal side by side relation.A TheA walls tions to be made of corresponding width for vin this embodiment are suitably perforated interchangeable use in accordance with'the asat 18% to permit the cooling liquid to enmanner in which the units or compartments ter and ll the channels tov thedesired level'.

-13 and 14 are placed or associated in the tub v What I claim as newmis:

10. Each cover section has a. lining 24 of innl1.V Ina refrigerator'. of the character desulating material adapted to fit within the scribed, a rectangular box having a roundA top of the box 7 to effectively exclude the`enbottom tub removably fitted in and extending 05 -trancepf warm air into the refrigerator, and from end to end thereof, a plurality of round 1,3`

From the above description it will be aplll bottom commodity compartments removably bottom tub fitted in 'and extending from en'd to end thereof, and a plurality of round bottom commodity compartments removably fitted in said tub in side by side relation, certain of said compartments comprising bottle side relation,

innermost partitlon formmg a compartment .Y

holding yand dispensing units spaced to provide an ice chamber therebetween, each bottle holding and dispensing unit consisting of an open top perforated receptacle having spaced nested U-shaped partitions forming a plurality of channels'through which bottles are adapted to be passed in horizontal side by side relation, another of said compartments comprising an open-top imperforate receptacle devoid of partitions.

3. In a refrigerator of the character described, aI rectangular box having a round bottom tub fitted in and extending from end to end thereof, and a plurality of round bottom commodity compartments removably-fitted in said tub, certain of said compartments `comprising bottle holding and dispensing units, each bottle holding and dispensing unit consisting of an open top receptacle havinga plurality of spaced U-shaped partitions defining channels through which the bottles are adapted to be passed in horizontal side by the space between the legs of the for reception of a row of upright bottles` in side by side relation.

4. In a refrigerator of the character described, a rectangular box having a round bottom tub removabl fitted in and extending from end to end thereof, and a plurality of round bottom commodity compartments removably fitted in said tub, certain of said compartments comprising p em ying receptacles having spaced nested partitions forming channels through which the bottles are adapted to be passed in horizontal side by side relation, and said receptacles being perforated to permit entrance of cooling fluid therein,

5. In arefrigerator of the character described, a rectangular box having a round bottom tub removably fittedin and extendin vfrom end to end thereof, and a plurality o round bottom commodity compartments relmovably fitted in said tub in side by side relation, certain `of said compartments comprisbottle dispensing units ing bottle dispensing units having channels through which the bottles are adapted to be passed in horizontal perforated to permit entrance of cooling fiuid therein, and another of said compartments comprisin tacle for t ie `dry cold storage of goods.

an open top imperforate recepfv side by side relation and 6. In a refrigerator of the character describe a rectangular box having a round bottom tub removably: fitted in and extending from end to end thereof, and a plurality of round bottom commodity compartments removably fitted in said tub, certain of said compartments comprising bottle holding and dispensing units, each bottle holding and dispensing unit consisting of an open top recel tacle having spaced nested Usshaped partitions forming a plurality of channels through which bottles are adapted to be passed in hori'` zontal. side by side relation, and each latter compartment being perforated for the free entrance of cooling liquid therein, said partitions being arranged 1n pairs and corrugated longitudinally to definev said channels'of a crossesectional shape conforming to the opposite sides of bottles having an irregular longitudinal contour.

7. In a refrigerator of the character de-` scribed, a bottle dispensing unit consisting of fan open-top receptacle having spaced pairs of nested U-shaped walls defining a plurality of channels through which bottles are adapted to be passed in horizontal side by side relation, saidv Walls being longitudinally corrugated to define the channels of a cross-sectional shape conforming to the opposite sides of bottles contour.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature.

v JAMES E. SAPP.

having an irregular longitudinal 

